There are certain things that make me feel old. One of those things is the idea that bands used to make albums. My musical awareness began when you could still buy LPs. Side one had different songs than side two — and someone thought about what should be where. A sides, [...]
READ MORE...Sometimes I wonder why some songs are huge hits and other songs are ignored. It just doesn’t make sense why Float On by Modest Mouse goes Top 40 and Autoclave by The Mountain Goats (see below) doesn’t. They seem equally catchy to me. I suppose it has something to do with marketing and dumb luck.
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I’m pretty predictable. There are certain things that function as behavioral triggers for me. You know — ring a bell leads to drooling. That kind of thing. So, whenever a song comes on the Ipod that’s, well, a tad bit out of sync with the rest of the playlist, I inevitably say to my wife, [...]
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Michael Landweber writes fiction for adult, young adult and middle grade readers. He lives in Washington, DC with his wife and two children. His stories have appeared in Pindeldyboz, Fourteen Hills, Barrelhouse, American Literary Review, Fugue among others. He is an Associate Editor at the Potomac Review and can also be found writing and blogging about TV, movies and other fun stuff at Pop Matters.
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